THREE men pleaded guilty to their roles in an incident where a naked man was found with stab wounds in a Liverpool street.

Police were called to a disturbance on Warbreck Road at 7am on September 30 and when officers arrived they found the 29-year-old injured man, who had been seen running down Walton’s Rice Lane trying to flag down passing car.

He was taken to hospital to be treated for stab wounds to his head and neck and needed nine stitches in eight separate wounds.

Neil Pearman, 28, of Ecclesall Avenue in Bootle, Garry Callagher, 45, of Olney Street, Walton, and Stephen White, 36, of Warbreck Road, Walton, had been due to stand trial for aggravated burglary in connection with the incident.